So unsurprisingly a security researcher found some cheap Android devices phoning home to China when buying a phone to travel with. One of the phones seems to be Blu R1 HD, which is ‘Currently unavailable’ on Amazon.com and customers that bought it have received security update e-mails. Security researchers have uncovered a secret backdoor in […]

CuckooDroid is an extension of Cuckoo Sandbox the Open Source software for automating analysis of suspicious files, for Android malware analysis. CuckooDroid brings to Cuckoo the capabilities of execution and analysis of android applications. CuckooDroid provides both static and dynamic APK inspection as well as evading certain VM-detection techniques, encryption key extraction, SSL inspection, API […]

So Android Malware has always been quite a problem, especially with it being so easy to install random .apk files and the proliferation of 3rd party app stores. Also so many people with rooted phones and the fact that software installed can root your phone and take complete control. The current worry is the Hummer […]

So it seems the Google corporate motto/slogan “Don’t be evil” is falling down again, Google is adopting a very Microsoft-esque approach and orphaning users of older version of Android (basically anything before the current production version 4.4 AKA Kit Kat). Which is the majority of Android users right now, especially those using lower end devices […]

Sophos seems to be a lot more aggressive recently when it comes to the consumer market, they used to be a hardcore enterprise only solution when they first started out. I guess they’ve realized where the money is. Back in 2010 they one of the first to come out with a free Antivirus solution for […]